Does garlic cure Covid-19? Find out using IIT Kanpur's fake news buster

IIT researchers collaborate with industry partner to develop AI-powered solution for instant fact checking

Amid the covid-19 pandemic and a deluge of fake news and unverified messages floating on various social media platforms, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur has developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered solution for instant fact checking.

Titled ‘Satyanweshi’ ('seeker of truth' in Sanskrit), the AI chatbot is programmed for finding and checking true information about covid-19.

According to Prof Swaprava Nath of the IIT Kanpur Department of computer science and engineering (CSE), it has been developed by a group of researchers and students in collaboration with an industry partner.